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NOTES ON BLINDNESS: INTO DARKNESS

  • France 🇫🇷
  • United Kingdom 🇬🇧
  • United States of America 🇺🇸
2016
7 min.

The multi-awarded narrative VR experience is now available on Oculus Quest. ARTE gives you the opportunity to discover and rediscover Notes On Blindness, an emotional journey into a world beyond sight. In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, John Hull became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audio cassettes. These original diary recordings create the basis of this interactive non-fictional narrative which is a cognitive and emotional experience of blindness. Storytelling, art direction and graphical universe form a unique and singular immersion, completed by movement tracking, spacialized sound and controller interactions. 

Tags:

DisabilityIntimate experienceLet's cry

Where To Watch It?


Meta Quest Meta Rift Oculus Gear App Store Apple Android Google

Production Company

Ex NihiloARTEARCHER’S MARK

Distribution Company

Astrea

Partner Company

NovelabAtlas V

Director

Arnaud ColinartAmaury La BurthePeter MiddletonJames Spinney

Producer

Arnaud ColinartDavid CoujardMike BrettJo-Jo Ellison

Sound Designer

Florent DumasThomas Couchard

VR Director

Béatrice LartigueFabien TogmanArnaud Desjardins

Language

EnglishFrançais

Subtitle

EnglishFrançais

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Selection

Award 🌟
  • Immersive & Interactive @ 82th Peabody Awards
  • Special Mention @ Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2017
  • Pink Kraken Award @ Filmgate Interactive Media Festival 2017
  • People’s Choice Award @ Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2016
  • VR Award @ Sheffield DocFest 2016
  • Storytelling and Innovation Award @ Sheffield DocFest 2016
  • Storyscapes Award @ Tribeca Film Festival 2016
Distribution, Arcade, Streaming
  • PHI VR TO GO
Festival, Exhibit, Showcase
  • Beijing International Film Festival (BJFF) 2025
  • Other Worlds are Possible @ Le Pavillon
  • XR Panorama @ Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2025
  • Digital Autumn: Changing Perspective (Almaty)
  • Digital Autumn: Changing Perspective (Astana)
  • Digital Autumn: Changing Perspective (Tashkent)
  • Unity Expanded @ Wales Millennium Centre
  • Immersive Selection (Non-competitive Works) @ Festival de Cannes 2024
  • Smart Nomade @ Le Connecteur
  • Smart Nomade @ L’Abbaye Aubazine
  • Fog of War @ IDFA Institue
  • Sala XR @ Mediamorfosis 2023 (Ecuador)
  • Experiencias VR @ Mediamorfosis 2023 (Chile)
  • Spazio Futuro @ Pordenone Docs Fest 2022
  • Smart @ FIPADOC 2022
  • Festival International d’Art Vidéo de Casablanca (FIAV) 2021
  • VR Pavilion @ Luxembourg City Film Festival 2021
  • Sandbox Immersive Festival – 砂之盒沉浸影像节 2018
  • VR THE WORLD @ Vienna Shorts 2018
  • Virtual Reality @ Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2017
  • Virtual Reality @ 41ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo 2017
  • VR Pop Up Kino @ DOK.fest München 2017
  • VR Pavilion @ Luxembourg City Film Festival 2017
  • Filmgate Interactive Media Festival 2017
  • L’Air Numérique @ Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers 2017
  • IDFA DocLab – “Elastic Reality” Special Focus @ IDFA Festival 2016
  • Out-of-Competition @ Festival Tous Ecrans 2016
  • Extended Reality: DOK Neuland @ DOK Leipzig 2016
  • FNC Explore @ Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2016
  • I LOVE TRANSMEDIA 2016
  • Melbourne International Film Festival 2016
  • VR Arles Festival @ Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles 2016
  • Embodied Narrative: Sensory Stories of the Digital Age @ PHI
  • Alternate Realities @ Sheffield DocFest 2016
  • Down the Rabbit Hole @ Sydney Film Festival 2016
  • Bains numériques 2016
  • Virtually There @ MIT
  • Storyscapes @ Tribeca Film Festival 2016
  • New Frontier @ Sundance Film Festival 2016
Funding, Institution
  • TFI New Media Fund 2015 @ Tribeca Film Institute

Related Posts

  • “Realities come together” – Grégoire Parain (Novelab)

In The Media

  • 🇫🇷 A. Colinart : « En VR, une mauvaise histoire reste une mauvaise histoire » (INA)
  • _Interview with Arnaud Colinart by Sandra Gaudenzi (MIT)
  • The Best VR of 2016: Arnaud Colinart and Amaury La Burthe on Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness (Filmmaker Magazine)
  • Can Virtual Reality Help Us Understand Blindness? (The Ringer)
  • 🇫🇷 Notes on Blindness, l’expérience de la cécité (France Inter)
  • Immersive storytelling breaks the fourth wall at Phi Centre (CBC Canada)

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